Know How / Beef

Profitably transforming day-old calves into fat cattle requires mastering many skills ranging from fertility management to achieving the best daily liveweight gain.

Whether you run a suckler herd or rear or finish beef cattle, browse our beef articles to find out how to improve beef farm profitability and productivity.

Key areas of focus:

  • Optimising productivity of the suckler herd
  • Achieving good weight gains and performance
  • Improving herd health and welfare
  • Management of healthy youngstock
  • Selecting the best market for your produce

Latest Know How

BEEF

How to make sure suckler cows produce top-quality colostrum

Ensuring suckler cows have at least 14% crude protein in their diet before calving will help antibody production and improve colostrum quality. But the drought in 2025 means that forage…

SHEEP

Young couple transform livestock farm with focus on costs

Streamlining operations, a tighter grip on costs and a proper renumeration package are among key changes a young Northumberland farming couple has made since completing a profit-focused business course. Rich…

SHEEP

How forage focus unlocked beef and sheep farm’s potential

A switch to rotational grazing has increased grass production by 45% on a north Devon beef and sheep farm. The change of system, which came as one generation handed over…

BEEF

How cost focus unlocked beef and sheep farm’s potential

There is nothing like a debt to focus the mind – and a farming partnership restructuring that allowed Richard McCornick and his brother Craig to farm independently certainly did that.…

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